About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

January 11......

January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 354 (355 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

● 1523 - German reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter: 'It is unchristian, even unnatural, to derive benefit and protection from the community and not also to share in the common burden and expense; to let other people work but to harvest the fruit of their labors.'

● 1777 - Anglican hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'A soul may be in as thriving a state when thirsting, seeking and mourning after the Lord as when actually rejoicing in Him; as much in earnest when fighting in the valley as when singing upon the mount.'

● 1779 - Ching-Thang Khomba crowned King of Manipur

● 1785 - Continental Congress convenes in New York City NY

● 1787 - William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.

● 1790 - Statisten & Vonckisten unite as Belgium

● 1791 - In Philadelphia, Episcopal Bishop William White, 43, founded the First Day Society. It became the forerunner of the American Missionary Fellowship, chartered in 1817 and headquartered today in Villanova, PA.

● 1794 - Robert Forsythe, a US Marshal was killed in Augusta, Georgia when trying to serve court papers, the first US Marshal to die in action.

● 1878 - In New York, milk was delivered in glass bottles for the first time by Alexander Campbell.

● 1879 - Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins

● 1880 - Total solar eclipse blackens the sky of San Francisco one day after the funeral of Emperor Norton.

● 1885 - Alice Paul, first peace picketer at White House, born. A leading suffragist and, a half-century later, author of the Equal Rights Amendment. (Still not the law of the land.)

● 1887 - Birth of American naturalist Aldo Leopold, whose "Sand Country Almanac" is an early environmentalist classic.

● 1887 - France - Clement Duval, anarchist expropriator and member of the "Panthers of Batignolles" is condemned to death. Following the protests of anarchists, his sentence was commuted life. In 1901, he escaped from servitude in Guyana to New York, where he lived until age 85, surrounded by Italian anarchist comrades.

● 1922 - At Toronto General Hospital, 14-year-old Leonard Thompson becomes the first person to receive an insulin injection as treatment for diabetes. Diabetes had been recognized as a distinct medical condition for over 3,000 years {what is now called Type I diabetes, was a sure death sentence}, but its cause (pancreatic failure) was a mystery until the 2Oth century, and what causes the pancreas to fail is only being solved now in the 21st.

● 1923 - Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments.

● 1932 - Massacre of Casas Viejas Pueblo in Cadiz, Spain, heralds Civil War. A peasant uprising is put down with the killing of 16 peasants and workers by the civil guard.

● 1923 - 1st Dutch Dada-evening (Theo Van Doesburg & Kurt Schwitters)

● 1925 - Franc B Kellogg replaces Charles Hughes on as US Secretary of State

● 1933 - In Hamburg, Germany, the Altona Confession was issued by area pastors, offering Scriptural guidelines for the Christian life, in light of the confusing political situation and the developing Nazi influence on the State Church.

● 1935 - Aviator Amelia Earhart began a trip from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif., becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean.

● 1942 - Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies.

● 1943 - Assassination of anarchist militant Carlo Tresca, New York City. Murdered by an unknown assailant. Gentle and courtly in person, Tresca was an outspoken foe of fascism in Germany and Italy and of communism in the Soviet Union. Tresca was also a skilled labor agitator, leading strikes and urging workers to stand up for their rights. Served on the John Dewey Commission, which declared Trotsky "not guilty" of the charges presented at the Moscow Purge Trials. Once Tresca took such positions, the communists conducted a campaign of character assassination aimed at destroying his influence in the anti-fascist movements.

● 1943 - The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.

● 1944 - Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established

● 1946 - Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as dictator.

● 1973 - Pres. Nixon ends 17 month wage-price controls, unthinkable government interference in the market by the country's last truly liberal president. {He also hoped to get some of the heat of Watergate off himself with this move.}

● 1973 - Beginning of the Watergate burglars trial.

● 1973 - First Open University degrees awarded; The first graduates from the Open University are awarded their degrees after two years studying from home.

● 1974 - The world's first surviving set of sextuplets are born to Susan Rosenkowitz in Cape Town, South Africa.

● 1980 - Nigel Short, 14, is the youngest chess player to be awarded the degree of International Master.

● 1981 - Embattled El Salvadoran junta imposes dawn-to-dusk curfew. The Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMLN) launches a general offensive. In two days the guerrillas' political arm will call for a general strike. By January 15, about half the shops in the capital city, San Salvador, will be closed and 20,000 government workers will walk out. U.S. military assistance and advisors follow shortly.

● 1998 - 100 die in massacre in Algeria; Islamic extremists are blamed for the deaths of 100 people in two villages in Algeria.

● 2000 - The merger between AOL and Time Warner was approved by the U.S. government with restrictions.

● 2000 - Seven missing in Irish Sea; Seven young fishermen are feared drowned off the Scottish coast after the disappearance of their scallop dredger in force nine gales.

● 2000 - The U.S. Postal Service unveiled the second Vietnam Veterans Memorial commemorative stamp in a ceremony at The Wall.

● 2001 - The Army acknowledged that U.S. soldiers killed an ''unknown number'' of South Korean refugees early in the Korean War at No Gun Ri.

● 2001 - The Texas Board of Criminal Justice released a review of the escape of the "Texas 7." It stated that prison staff missed critical opportunities to prevent the escape by ignoring a fire alarm, not reporting unsupervised inmates and not demanding proper identification from inmates.

● 2001 - The Federal Trade Commission approved the merger of AOL and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner.

● 2002 - Thomas Junta, 44, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for beating another man to death at their son's hockey practice. The incident occurred on July 5, 2000.

● 2003 - Calling the death penalty process ''arbitrary and capricious, and therefore immoral,'' Illinois Gov. George Ryan commuted the sentences of 167 condemned inmates, clearing his state's death row two days before leaving office.

● 2003 - Ford Motor Co. announced it was eliminating 35,000 jobs, closing five plants and dropping four models.

● 2006 - A Georgian court convicted a man of trying to assassinate President Bush and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili with a grenade in Tbilisi on May 10, 2005, and sentenced him to life in prison.

BIRTHS

● 1322 - Emperor Komyo of Japan (d. 1380)

● 1359 - Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (d. 1393)

● 1503 - Parmigianino, Italian artist (d. 1540)

● 1591 - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (d. 1646)

● 1630 - John Rogers, American President of Harvard in the US (d. 1684)

● Roman Catholic:● St. Alexander● St. Anastasius X● St. Boadin● St. Brandan● St. Vitalis of Gaza● St. Theodosius● St. Theodosius of Antioch● St. Theodosius the Cenobiarch● St. Salvius● Sts. Ethenea and Fidelmia● St. Honorata● St. Hyginus, 9th Pope (c 136-c 140), martyr● St. Leucius of Brindisi● St. Palaemon● Sts. Paldo, Tato, and Taso● Sts. Peter, Severus and Leucius

● Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic:● Venerable Theodosius

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 29 (Civil Date: January 11)● Afterfeast of the Nativity of Christ.● The 14,000 Infants (Holy Innocents) slain by Herod at Bethlehem● St. Marcellus, abbot of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones.● St. Thaddaeus, confessor, of the Studion.● St. Benjamin, monk of Nitria in Egypt.● St. Athenodorus, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great.● St. George, Bishop of Nicomedia.● St. Mark the Grave digger of the Kiev Caves.● Saints Theophilus and John of the Kiev Caves.● St. Theophilus of Luga and Omutch.● Commemoration of all Orthodox Christians who died from hunger, thirst, the sword, and freezing.● Repose of Elder Basiliscus of Siberia (1824).

● Roman Empire - First day of Carmentalia in honor of Carmenta

● Albania - Republic Day (1946)

● Morocco - Independence Resistance Day

● Nepal - Unity Day

● Chad : Independence Day (1960)

● Puerto Rico : De Hostos' Birthday (1839)

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"● Switzerland : Meitlisunntig Festival-Woman in Villmergen War (1712) - ( Sunday )

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